Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-12
CONDENSED NEWS.

The suicides at Vienna last year num-
bered 3'yS.
The Alcazar palace at Toledo, Spain, re-
Gently restored at a cost of 81, 00U,000, has
been reduced to ashes.
Maj j. P McIlrath, at one time chief of
police at St Paul, shot himself dead at
Cleveland, because of continued Illness.
James L. Perkins, the new postmaster at
CLAYTON, Mich, was arrested for keeping a
gambling den, on complaint of his prede-
cessor
The dynamite factory at Plattsburg, New
York, was destroyed Tuesday by an ex
plosion which shook buildings at Burling
ton, Vt
Edward A Bross, who died Tuesday, al
Elgin, Ills. was Mason of high rank. For
many wears he was conductor on the North
western road
A large iron bridge over the river Raisin
at Blissfield. Mich, fell Tuesday morning,
carrying four men and some cattle to the ice
twelve feet below No one was fatally in
jured.
Frank G. Haddock, an attorney ,at Osh
kosh, son of the clergyman assassinated
some months ago in Sioux City, has absn-
doned the law and accepted a call to a Meth
odist pulpit
Chicago burglars, early Tuesday morning,
in attempting to explode safe at 1,sUi
State street, very near'y blew up the build
ing, a three-story frame. They obtained
$40 in silver.
Henry D. Humphrey, of Idaho, whom
President Cleveland has nominated to a sec
ond lientenancy in the Twentieth infantry,
was dismissed from West Point for deficiency
in mathematics.
J. n Matthew'S proprietor of The Buffalo
Express, was arrested Tuesday and held in
bonds to answer the charge of criminal libel
preferred by Col John Byrne, the owner of
detective agency.
An agent for European purchasers Tues
day paid into the treasury of Texas Sl47, 900
for lands IN Dickens and Cara counties, in
hepanhandle. The money goes to the per-
manent school fund
A noted burglar and murderer, named
Dunmanway, formerly member of Jesse
James gang, died Tuesday in the Rhode
Island penitentiary at the age of 90. He is
said to have killed twelve men
At the st Louis stock yards Tuesday
morning, Robert A Steele was shot dead by
Y. R. Marstellar. Both were old men and
prominent traders. The difficulty grew out
Of loan Of sl5 to the murderer.
A machine which is likely to revolutionizt
the method Of making nails has been per
fected by Carver Trout and Philip Leonard
of Sharon, Pa, who propose to build a large
factory either at Chicago or Indianap
oils
The strike of coal-han1lers at eastern ship
ping points has caused suspension of min
Ing in all collieries dependent on the Lehigt
Valley road for cars. There is only TIVE
weeks supply at Providence AMI variUu
cities in New England
Fire destroyed on Tuesday an oper
house and hotel at Suncook, n H: tn
clamp factory and six other buildings "a
Batavia. n. Y. the shoe factory of A.
Beal at Brockton, Mass three cuisines
places at Carlisle, KY, and the Jones an'
Kloke blocks at Oswego, N. Y.
In the rcuit court at Chicago, Tuesday
bill for divorce was filed by woman VIII
claims to have married Frank j. Bowman,
celebrated lawyer of St. Louis, in June las
The defendant was interviewed Tuesday O
jefferson City, and denied all the charge
n,de He resides at the Southern hotel |
81. Louis, with "a woman whom he marie
in Brooklyn last summer-her name beiD
Stella Pratt.